#etching print

[szczekaczz]

Jan van den Hecke, Two dogs at rest (1656)

[sonlikesleep]

Stareater

Etching on copper, 15x10 cm

[wimbearn]

Printmaking class was fun. Except for screen printing… it was challenging.

Linktree | Ko-fi | Artistree

[artisticcallycaffeinated]

Mass production has begun 35 already done only 15 to go

[theftshrubbery]

In Hiding, Joan of Arc 🌷💗🌿🌼

limited etching prints here!

[fishdoodlesss]

Hi sorry I kind of abandoned this blog I started university and have been very busy but I'm still making fish!! Here's some :)

[dangerrdaze]

drypoint etching print for class😭

[occultesotericart]

1600’s anatomical engraving with alchemical symbolism /// by Gerhard Altzenbach

[3liza]

i mean the truth is that we do not need and should not have all this stupid plastic clutter in or houses. no one should be producing or selling this shit. everyone make your own merchandise and charge a living hourly wage to sell it 🤷 sorry to be so simplistic about this but it's one of the results of the lack of class unity specifically in the means of production-owning creative class, who is not mentioned or dealt with by the core Marxist texts as far as I know (i asked about this earlier on here, did marx ever address in his analysis people like, for example, a professional photographer who owns a camera ans prints his own dagguereotypes? or a portrait painter or idk, independent milliner or seamstress? these people all own the means of production and do not employ anyone, and the answer from better educated people than I was that no, Marx didn't mention them), I'm not well read on this at all, there is just a big void where leftist analysis of what modern economists call "the creative class"

I'm getting off topic. my point is make your own keychains in your kitchen. it's actually not hard. you can even mass produce (on a small scale) little plastic crap if you want, with resin and a UV lamp, or a 3d printer, or a laser cutter and acrylic sheets (or just use balsa wood damn, at least its biodegradable and less tacky).

all this stuff is available to little creators AND there are hundreds of people who already own these machines who will take work for you and produce your designs. you just have to actually find them and know them and email them. that's what I mean about the class unity issue with creatives. we have no large scale union, we have no large scale class consciousness, and we're all sending our orders for little plastic crap to sweatshops instead of emailing a guy with a laser cutter in his garage and saying "hey Keith can I get uhhhhhhhhhhh 50 laser cut keychains of this twerking Diggler design I made, like how much would that cost" and he's like sure here's the work and materials cost and tbh it's always always less than i think it's going to be. you just have to do some basic arithmetic and then order shipping, and I hate order fulfillment with my life but you can actually pay or barter with someone to do that for you too. learn to delegate and then factor that into your unit cost. this is basic shit every commercial creator needs to know. they should teach you this in art school but they dont

don't give me crap about "I can't afford a laser cutter" either because I just told you to email Keith. and all these machines get sold secondhand when a manufacturer or hobbyist needs to upgrade. i got a color laser printer perfect for making zines and wheatpastes and shipping labels from a retired lesbian on capital hill for $75 and it was still full of ink. my friend gave me her 20 year old canon dslr because she just didn't need it and didn't want to bother selling it. it works fine because I spent the time finding the right drivers and shit for my computer. and card readers exist. Craigslist. Facebook marketplace. nextdoor sales section. eBay. everyone always forgets eBay. eBay lets you save searches and will email you when it finds a guy selling his vinyl plotter in your city with local pickup. I'm serious

[psikonauti]

Mio Asahi (Japanese, b. 1956)

Town Where Angels Live

Etching and aquatint

[oncanvas]

Three human skulls, study for "Democritus in Meditation", Salvator Rosa, 1662

Etching 5 9/16 x 3 ⅝ in. (14.2 x 9.2 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA

[szczekaczz]

Jan van den Hecke, Dog drinking from a fountain (1656)

[mortiscausa]

something i've been working on, having a little fun combining etching and bookbinding

[thepapersnail]

James Ensor, Petites Figures Bizarres, 1888, drypoint and etching

[artisticcallycaffeinated]

Finalised at last. Only 50 prints to go.

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